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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is this information to be found?
(a) In Tarrou's journal.
(b) On walls, as graffiti.
(c) On walls, as in public notices.
(d) In the newspapers.

2. What important meeting takes place?
(a) The Prefect meets a committee of doctors.
(b) The Prefect meets Dr. Rieux's wife.
(c) The Prefect meets a committee of concerned citizens.
(d) The Prefect meets with ratcatchers.

3. What sight disturbs Rieux as he drives home?
(a) People attacking a screaming woman who is covered in blood.
(b) A woman screaming in agony and dripping blood.
(c) A woman throwing dead rats in litter bins.
(d) A woman carrying a dead rat that is bleeding horribly.

4. Who removes the dead rat from Dr Rieux's landing?
(a) Mrs Rieux.
(b) The concierge.
(c) Dr Rieux.
(d) M. Othon.

5. How many people have contracted the disease and recovered?
(a) One.
(b) None. All have died.
(c) Forty.
(d) Everone has recovered.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rieux treat the plague victims?

2. What is one aspect of the plague that Dr Rieux considers?

3. The narrator tells us that the city is:

4. What does Dr. Rieux urge the committee to do?

5. What is Rieux worried about?

(see the answer key)

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